Qigong adepts - describe your practice!

[herb ox]

Qigong practitioners! Please share some of your daily Qigong regimen with the group!

Do you practice external or internal methods? Sitting, standing or moving? Does your technique have a name/lineage?

What time(s) do you practice?

Most importantly, perhaps... WHY do you practice and how has your practice benefited you?

There are many paths up the mountainside...

herb ox

[David Jamieson]

I practice various Chi Kung.
Benefits are unknown?

I've been doing it for 24 years or so now and meditating even longer (since 7 yrs old).
I'm 51.
Many people peg me in late 30s early 40s. Most gasp when I say my age or think I"m messing with them.
So, maybe it is a result of chi Kung, Kung Fu, Yoga and meditation practice.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no fanatic. I just worked it into my life and when it suits me, I practice.
I sleep well, don't get too stressed about much and keep a generally good outlook about life.

Maybe that's really all there is to it for me?

I'll just practice anyway.

the guy I train with turns 60 this year. We have practiced together for 10+ years now in the above various arts. He seriously looks younger than I do. But since starting again back in 2003-4, he hasn't changed much at all in appearance.

Maybe there are preservative qualities to these practices? There does seem to be a lot of old people moving well and not looking their age as expected.

[MarathonTmatt]

My Qigong practice I am in standing position, but also shifting/ turning/ rising/ sinking/ bending/ rotating/ moving kwa/ breathing etc. as needed

I combine 2 versions I learned of the 8 Brocade together (for instance if there was a variation in a given technique I choose the one that fits right for me)

I combine my 8 Brocade with movements from a "therapeutic" qigong set I learned, the Chinese name escapes me at the moment and also

I do the primordial qigong movements from GM Feng Zhi Qiang's Hunyuan Chen style that he taught/ promoted (my teacher was one of his students.) here is a link to that form- https://youtu.be/-5X5pBx8nUE

I may also go through stretches I learned from longfist class. Sometimes I do weight-lifting/ martial arts training/ push ups/ etc. after going through qi gong, sometimes not.

As far as Qigong goes, at this point, this is what I have learned and practice.

[edit]: also from Longfist class I train things like Snake Turn-Overs (Iron Hand Conditioning) also in relation to push-ups such as back of wrist style, and striking techniques like "fan-block and punch." I consider this to be "hard qi-gong" training compared to say, silk reeling exercises from tai chi or even the 8 brocade.

[herb ox]

Morning routine:
1 through 10 meditation ala Sifu Jerry Alan Johnson
Pulling down the heavens 3 times
Knocking the Mingmen 108 times
Loosening all the joints from hands to neck; feet to waist.
Meridian tapping
Knocking the skull
Massaging the forehead, brow, beneath the eyes
Pulling and massaging the ears
Pulling down the heavens 3 more times... done

Evening
Zuowang sitting 20-30 minutes

There are many more routines that I have practiced in the past but... well, that is in the past.

Qigong seems to keep me loosened up and feeling fit; helps me cope with stress; keeps headaches and back pain at bay.

At this point in time I primarily practice Qigong for cultivation of inner peace, health and sensitivity to perceive the subtle.

herb ox